AV Assistant vs Float Plan App Usage & Stats
AV Assistant is an informational aid for U.S. waters that shows your location and details on all surrounding aids to navigation (buoys, lights, etc) within your Area of Interest. The app downloads the weekly U.S. Coast Guard Light List for your district, and then shows the aids within your Area of Interest and their details. Any applicable Local Notice for Mariners information is also shown with the light data.
For reference use, Nearest Light, also in the App Store, is the better choice.
AV Assistant is capable of making reports to the U.S. Coast Guard regarding discrepancies in aids to navigation and is primarily intended for USCG and USCG Auxiliary use. Refer to the website (url in Settings|Reference) for additional information.
Warning: AV Assistant, which provides Light List data, is not intended to be used in place of charts or Coast Pilots. Charts should be consulted for the location of all aids to navigation. It may be dangerous to use aids to navigation without reference to charts.
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- Free
- Navigation
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The Float Plan app helps boat captains, kayakers and anyone else getting on the water to safely register their plan of travel. The application will list potential passengers as well as storing the departure point and time and the expected return point and time. In the case of an on the water incident delaying a boater from returning at the pre-determined location on time, our application will notify your emergency contact that you are past due.
In addition, float plan will tract your on the water travel and send out a notice to your emergency contact if your signal should be lost. Each trip will be logged and stored in case the captain wants to pull up a list of trips for any reason
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- Free
- Travel
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AV Assistant VS. 
Float Plan AppJanuary 18, 2026